Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

“Uh, Evadne, Jason already rang me up, he seemed quite upset. Comfort him a bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that you’re upset, so he’s under a lot of stress,” Arnold sighed.

“I got it.”

up, Evadne got the full picture of what had happened, her

were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t accept that

he was so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s

in office! The moment he retired, those people were circling us like hawks, wanted to get back at us, frame us! If it wasn’t for Chairman Emeric’s help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor

for over twenty years,

to me, everyone is a client. If it’s a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy group or the Ashbourne group, it simply doesn’t matter to me! You, on the other hand, our parents worked hard to raise you, provided you with an elite education, poured so

stung

Evadne his whole heart, but

face

what are

him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family

Jason’s voice choked, filled with

totally understand this, and I absolutely have no grudge.”

Cedric a good enough deal, then Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to his

shyly lowered his

they got in the car, Ca**ius took Evadne’s hand, gently stroking her

Acacia and George’s illegitimate daughter. But first, I need to make

narrowing slightly, “George said that only Acacia’s mother Una knows where the child is, so let’s have Una help us find our way. That way, we won’t have to do

smiled slightly, then asked, “And what about Acacia? What’s your

her mad before

feeling sleepy and she also inquired, “Isn’t she about to get engaged to Thaddeus? How can we make her fall from grace if she isn’t standing on

marbles,” Ca**ius was deeply shocked

now. No matter, I’ve found myself

out her phone, found the photo of Avery and then she had snapped. “Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I was nearly stabbed by George the other day, but thanks

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exclaimed in surprise. “Really? Then you should thank

identity a mystery. The kicker

she recalled the man’s smooth, jade–like

for control and

to her, examining

lit up, and he turned to

you really don’t know

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